The Landscape
The ground is not thought as a flat plate element on which the buildings are simply located, on the contrary it is used as if it would be a “3D solid material” and shaped both horizontally and vertically.

In this way force lines are developed from East to West, always dynamic, which find their highest points on the 2 hills which enclose the villas, that all have a view to the Taihu Lake. 

The Waterscape
The intention is to emphasize to the maximum the presence of water making it become a diffuse system, introducing it inside the area and in every part of the project, and using it as if it was a “3D liquid material”.

Following as a model the idea of the city of Venice an estuary is created to the South with an artificial island for open air shows, a series of buildings which represent the Yacht Club thought as an archipelago, a small lake system, a timed waterfall (for example 10 minutes per hour, mainly in the evening and with scenographic artificial lighting) coming from the last floor of the Hotel.